That he signed an extension through 2028
Chris Jans hates Starkville so much
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That he signed an extension through 2028
Yet another example of this board taking a rumor and installing it as a truth on par with canon religious law.
Somebody has to do it.
seems like he wanted to get work done (portal work done) before slowing down to get all that done, the man is a dentist for God's sake
I made this up. This is not true.
I heard we'll pay another school to take him off our hands. We have WAY too much basketball history to be satisfied with making the tournament in back-to-back years***********************
It’s actually a negative buyout. We have to pay him to leave whenever he wants
We all would have been ok with it if the Arkansas rumor never got out. That's the one that stung me the most.
This is true. I get that the pigs focus more on basketball, but his agent screwed the pooch on that one. Felt like Danny Two Gloves all over again.
Jans wants out of Starkville. He heavily pursued numerous jobs this offseason - he just didn’t get them. It’s not a rumor.
I’m thankful he’s returning though. And, I’m genuinely curious why he wants out so bad. We seem like a good fit for each other.
I think both MSU and OM will be in basketball coaching searches very soon.
Any good agent would "accidentally" let that rumor slip, whether it is true or not doesn't matter to an agent's client
It appears that at least a couple people who were all worked up over Jans not having signed an extension are being pretty dismissive of Jans having signed an extension.
Classic SPS move by those posters.
Classic SPS move by those posters.
Meh. The Arkansas basketball job is a better job. Can’t blame a coach with no real ties here for pursuing it. I hope he continues to get consideration for better jobs, but fails to land them.
Agreed. He’s doesn’t seem so sure he’d get hired next season, either, since he re-signed.
We could do a lot worse than Jans. But don’t mistake that with us not being able to do better, either.
He's already better than any coach we've had not named McCarthy, Stansbury or Williams. And he's only been here 2 years. I'd rather take my chances with him than with whoever the next coach will be (whenever that is).
We have, historically, been historically bad at hiring basketball coaches. So, that’s kind of a low bar.
I don’t hate the guy. But if he wants to leave, it will not be a wrecking ball to our program in the modern era of NCAA basketball.
Who can we realistically hire right now that’s objectively better? Name some names.
Supposedly the contract hold up was the buyout, not the length of contract.
I have mixed feelings. I don’t love the idea of a coach that’s been here for 2 years slow playing an extension so that he can go interview elsewhere. However, if his salary heading into last season really was $2.4m which was basically at the bottom of the conference, I can understand that he was looking for more than a 10-15% increase. We can argue all day about what college coaches should be making, but the bottom line is that this is the cost of playing these days, and Jans has outperformed his contract so far
At the end of the day, we’re better off with Jans back than otherwise, so I guess all’s well that ends well and everyone can move forward
At the end of the day, we’re better off with Jans back than otherwise, so I guess all’s well that ends well and everyone can move forward
One conclusion I've come to in the last couple of years. Don't let yourself care about any coach or player, ever. Because they don't care about you. I'll continue watching and pulling for us to win. But it's a LOT less important to me than it used to be.
We have been historically bad at hiring basketball coaches, but if a successful coach leaves, it wont be a wrecking ball to the program in the modern NCAA Basketball era?
WT17 does that even mean?
Do you think MSU would be fine and bounce right back because of NIL and the portal? I assume that is what you are referring to when you mention the modern era.
...but if we are historically bad at hiring good basketball coaches, why are you confident we would do well?
You’re acting like I said we could go steal a sitting P5 coach or something. Any given year, there are mid major coaches that come in and kill it somewhere.
He’s made first four in, and lost. Neat. Got murdered by a mediocre Meatchicken State team after being gifted a higher seed than I would have ever expected. Coolio. Also gave us the worst loss in program history. Not neat.
Be impressed all the 17 you want with the guy, I couldn’t care less. I’ve said we could do way worse. But, WHEN he leaves, it won’t be like when Mullen left and we knew we were gonna downgrade no matter what.
It means you can’t 17ing decipher English, you tw@t. We have much better leadership now than we’ve had when we hired the other coaches.
You cant name a single coach. Yet you said we can do better. Proves you’re just pulling stuff out of your ***.